Abstract
The study aims to examine the causal links ethical leadership and job satisfaction have with commitment of health workers in Ghana, given the recent sit-down strikes and lamentations against the attitude of health workers. Cross- sectional survey design based on a quantitative approach using structured questionnaires was used. 617 health workers comprising doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, and laboratory workers participated in the study. Pearsons’ correlation and linear regression were employed as analytical techniques. It was found that ethical leadership and job satisfaction positively affect organizational commitment. Job satisfaction however emerged with a greater effect size over ethical leadership. This study explored the commitment of health workers only. When narrowing the findings, generalization to groups such as the private sector and non-governmental organizations, reduces the scope of the findings. Management of public health centers should avoid reading between the lines in adopting and exhibiting ethical behaviors that would enhance employee’s commitment to their work. Similarly, factors that foster job satisfaction must be given ultimate attention.
Highlights
To compound the issues the more, the health sector has recorded in the recent decade, an avalanche of industrial unrests strikes mostly engineered by healthcare professionals in the various hospitals in Ghana
The result suggests that higher levels of ethical leadership or improved ethical leadership, and high levels of employee satisfaction on their job lead to higher employee commitment among health workers in the Central Region of Ghana
Lower levels of ethical leadership and lower levels of job satisfaction are associated with lower levels of commitment on the part of the health workers
Summary
The health sector remains critical in man management especially given the recent wave of Covid-19. The attitude of healthcare professionals in Ghana has been subjected to various criticisms, most of which seem to be the negatives. These supposedly needful reproaches raise concerns over the commitment level, and level of job satisfaction among healthcare professionals, as well as the approach and style of leadership, demonstrated at the various healthcare facilities, especially the hospitals. To compound the issues the more, the health sector has recorded in the recent decade, an avalanche of industrial unrests strikes mostly engineered by healthcare professionals in the various hospitals in Ghana. According to Gyamfi (2011), in Ghana, the health profession frequently experiences industrial unrest as a result of disparities and unfulfilled agreements regarding payment mechanisms and other working conditions in the health sector
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